[Dovecot] Per user special-use folder names
Michael M Slusarz
slusarz at curecanti.org
Tue Feb 5 22:50:12 EET 2013
Quoting Patrick Ben Koetter <p at sys4.de>:
> That's part of what makes SPECIAL-USE so sexy. It is language independent.
> All it does is say "This mailbox is reserved for that particular usage." How
> you call it, is up to you (client).
Well.... not quite. The problem comes when you have *multiple* sent
mailboxes on your server, which is perfectly acceptable and quite
useful (e.g. an MUA allows multiple identities, and each identity uses
a separate sent-mail mailbox). You can't just blindly show the local
translation for "Sent" for all of the mailboxes, or else you've now
eliminated the user's ability to differentiate between them.
In practical use, SPECIAL-USE isn't tremendously helpful for
"auto-configuration" of an MUA because of these kind of vagaries.
michael
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